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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Reform want to justify itself?
(a) Through its changes.
(b) Through its past.
(c) Through its popularity.
(d) Through the future.

2. Why did Catholicism drastically change the Aztec view of life?
(a) It placed a merciful God in charge.
(b) It saw life linearly rather than cyclically.
(c) It emphasized man's humanity and personhood.
(d) It placed man's salvation outside himself.

3. What does the pachuco represent in Paz's writing?
(a) One step along the path that a Mexican can take.
(b) The modern-day religious saint.
(c) The typical Mexican living in North American culture.
(d) One extreme at which the Mexican can arrive.

4. How does a man become "like the angels" (Chapter Three, page 61)?
(a) By opening fully to death, as well as to life.
(b) By valuing life to its final moment.
(c) By running from death to an embracement of life.
(d) By entrusting everything to God.

5. How did the Aztecs' final struggle manifest itself?
(a) In suicide.
(b) In silence.
(c) In destruction of their own property.
(d) As the last battle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does the Mexican man play in society?

2. Why do Mexicans tell lies (Chapter Two)?

3. On what does Paz blame "the rather zigzag progress of the state"? Chapter Eight, page 181).

4. As Paz begins Chapter Two, he says that the Mexican is always afraid to glance at his neighbor. What reason does he give for that?

5. What is Paz's solution for the lack of capital?

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